Word: haitianize
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Diogène Cyprien, prosperous Haitian trader, had only one serious weakness: women. Otherwise, he was a most estimable citizen, honest in business and kind to his children. When his old mother died, he promised her to abide by most of the Christian virtues, but he drew the line at being faithful to his wife. And when he set eyes on the luscious Lourdes, with her full mouth and hypnotic eyes, he knew temptation had struck again. He went on another fling...
...strong man of the island republic of Haiti, New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague and Kansas City's late Tom Pendergast were fumbling amateurs at the fine political art of turning out the vote. For the first time in the nation's 146-year-old history, Haitian voters went to the polls last week to choose a President by direct popular election (TIME, Oct. 9). By week's end, according to the first unofficial returns, Candidate Magloire had piled up an early total of 151,115 votes. His only formal opponent, an obscure architect named Fenelon...
Colonel Magloire is the strong man of the Haitian army. It was Magloire who put Dumarsais Estimé in the presidency four years ago, and it was Magloire who sent Estimé on his travels last May for trying to bypass the constitution and get himself reelected. The Estimé experience convinced the colonel that he had better stop fooling and run the country himself...
...Haitian Senate had rejected a proposed constitutional change permitting proud, scheming President Dumarsais Estimé to be elected to succeed himself in 1952. Last week, after 10,000 dancing, drumming, pro-Estimé Haitians had paraded through Port-au-Prince and sacked the Senate chamber, the army moved in on Estimé. Forcing the resignation of the man it had backed for the presidency four years ago, a three-man military junta took over at the palace...
Graceful Yielding. The ladies went out in the streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian government, the United Nations inquired, in effect, when the Haitians were going to get around to letting their women vote as full citizens...